Context switching imposes a performance penalty on threads in a multitasking environment. The source of this penalty is both direct overhead due to running the context switch code...
Francis M. David, Jeffrey C. Carlyle, Roy H. Campb...
Today, most mobile devices (e.g. PDAs) are in some way associated to a fixed personal computer or server. In general this relation is only taken into account for synchronization p...
An important aspect of service-centric systems (i.e. systems composed of services) is the ability to support service discovery at run-time in order to cope with unavailable or mal...
George Spanoudakis, Andrea Zisman, Alexander Kozle...
One of the envisioned advantages of scalable video coding is its inherent suitability for achieving unequal error protection (UEP). UEP can be effectively used for graceful qualit...
The emerging edge services architecture promises to improve the availability and performance of web services by replicating servers at geographically distributed sites. A key chal...
Lei Gao, Michael Dahlin, Amol Nayate, Jiandan Zhen...